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Bill McKibben on David Letterman
Posted By: Amanda Gillen
Date: September 2nd, 2010
Category: Climate Change
Tags: 350.org, bill mckibben, gro Solar, groSolar, grow solar, Jeff Wolfe
Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org and also a groSolar customer, was on David Letterman on Tuesday night talking about climate change, putting solar on the White House and the future of our little planet.
Bill has been involved in climate change since the 80’s and even wrote the first book on the subject back in 1989. The past two decades have seen the largest increases in carbon output during human history. For the first 10,000 years of human civilization our atmospheric carbon was about 275 parts per million (ppm). Right now we are at 392 ppm. Most climate scientists agree that we need to be at 350 ppm (hence the name of Bill’s organization).
So why aren’t we doing anything to change? Have we become complacent? Or are there enough powerful special interests in the world who don’t want to solve this problem?
Check out Bill’s interview below (and have a tissue handy to wipe away the tears of despair).